I once heard that contractions are like this: a belt around your middle that is tightened agonizingly in ever elongating instances that arrange themselves in a pattern of pain.

When I was seven I believed in God so I told Him I was sorry about kicking my sister and to “please not condemn me to eternal suffering in the interminable fires of Perdition for my transgressions.

The Girl does not dream. The Girl has never dreamed.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Be the star of your life.

I may be compelled to face danger but never fear it and while our soldiers can stand and fight I can stand and feed and nurse them.

I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.

Remember, what you continually talk about, comes about.

I had this producer who became a friend, named Lou [Stellato]. Maybe it was a budget thing, but he never wanted to do any retakes. The more I would have a mental breakdown on the air.

I guess I don’t know what I want.” “I do. I want you.” “I know, but—” “Nothing will ever change that. No matter what you hear. No matter what happens.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.